Q: Recently, The Office Delray changed its menu and no longer offer the amazing Lobster tacos. The combination of lobster, veggies, cilantro and delicious sauce gave them a one-of-a-kind flavor not to be believed! Would you please provide this Lobster taco recipe? - Mitzi and Bob Victor, Boca Raton A: The Office Delray (201 E. Atlantic Ave., Delray Beach , 888-507-7463, theofficedelray.com ) has changed things up on its menu. Thanks to manager Joseph Carter, I was able to get the recipe for the Crispy Office lobster tacos.

The Miami-Dade State Attorney's Office announced that Israel Torres, 42, of Opa-Locka, who was charged with stealing lobsters from commercial traps, accepted a plea Tuesday and will serve 18 month in state prison followed by three years of probation. Torres and his father, Eloy, were caught with 120 lobsters, 115 of them undersized, that they'd taken from traps in January in Biscayne Bay according to the arrest affidavit. Among the 28 counts Torres was charged with was felony trap robbing, interference with an FWC officer and over the bag limit of spiny lobster.

Almost every year Florida's lobster mini-season has at least one casualty. With the 2011 two-day season starting Wednesday, the South Florida-based Reef Ministry is trying to change that. The normally quiet Fort Lauderdale Aquatics Center was a bubbling, gurgling beehive of activity on Sunday as the group's second-annual "Revive Your Dive" took place in and around one of the pools. About 60 divers split up into groups of five for refresher lessons from volunteer instructors, gear checks, and meetings with medics from the Divers Alert Network.

Florida poachers can be pretty creative. The problem is that after the individuals are caught, the devices they used for their illegal efforts often continue to impact marine resources. That's why a team from NOAA Fisheries is now in the Keys searching for and removing building materials from the water used in a large lobster poaching operation. Instead of traps, the operation used what are known as casitas, which is Spanish for little houses. Made from cinder blocks, lumber and sheets of metal, casitas have been described by NOAA marine habitat restoration specialist Sean Meehan as looking like coffee tables that are six inches high.

Unlike past regular lobster seasons, divers have had to work hard to catch their share of bugs since the season began last week. Typically, the beginning of the regular season, which opens Aug. 6 and runs through March 31, is pretty good, with plenty of lobsters still around in the wake of the two-day lobster mini-season. That hasn't been the case this year. Some divers say it's because the mini-season was late this year - July 30-31 - and the lobsters that survived haven't yet made it back to their mini-season hangouts.

A Margate woman died while diving for lobster near Marathon on Thursday, according to the Monroe County Sheriff's Office. Melissa Fellows, 36, was diving near the Seven Mile Bridge about 2 p.m. during a dive trip aboard a private boat. Her husband, Wayne Fellows, 32, was one of several people aboard the vessel, sheriff's officials said. She and another diver were in about 12 feet of water using a "hookah rig" breathing apparatus, which draws air from the surface through a line connected to the mask, investigators said.

When the regular lobster season opens Wednesday, Frank Schmidt will be back at the same spots that paid off so nicely for him and his crew a week ago on the opening day of the lobster miniseason. Schmidt, of Lighthouse Point, his son-in-law Jim Pszanka, Bob Zamoscianyk, Dave Brisbane and Sherry Williams caught their miniseason limit of 60 lobsters last Wednesday. The second day, Schmidt and his divers caught 30 lobsters. Schmidt got his 12-lobster limit both days and won $250 in BugFest-By-The-Sea's Great Florida Bug Hunt for the total heaviest weight at 43.5 pounds, getting 24.9 pounds the first day. He said that Williams had 12 lobsters weighing about 21 pounds the first day and she tied for first with Debby Bradford in the prettiest lobster division for her lobster that had a tiara, a miniskirt and feathers on each leg. The key for catching your six-lobster limit during the start of the regular season, which runs through March 31, is to be on the water early.

So you went out for miniseason this past Wednesday and Thursday and caught a bunch of lobsters. Now, how do you cook all those lobster tails? And the lobsters you'll be catching when the regular season opens on Wednesday? Many divers simply drop the tails in boiling water for 5-8 minutes and serve them with melted butter, which is an easy and delicious way to cook them. Rich Barnhart takes a more creative approach to his lobster cookery, coming up with recipes that look great and taste even better.

The lobster catching was tougher on the second day of miniseason Thursday, but divers still enjoyed some success, along with another day of ideal diving conditions. “With all the lobsters we weighed yesterday, it's a wonder they caught anything today,” said Jeff Torode of South Florida Diving Headquarters in Pompano Beach, which was a weigh station for BugFest-By-The-Sea's Great Florida Bug Hunt. Several of the divers on the morning trip on Torode's boat Aqua View each caught a few lobsters, known as bugs.